How on earth do you work out your undertone?

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The only guidance I can find is to look at my veins but if I look at my wrist I can see both purple veins and blue/green veins.

I'm completely stumped. Gold and silver both look fine to me. I'm 50 so for a large part of my life silver jewellery was the only fashionable colour to wear so Im used to seeing it against my skin.

Im either an autumn or a winter or maybe a summer. Im not getting very far! Brown hair, green eyes medium contrast.

If I look at the colour palettes I would guess that the colours in the warm autumn palette suit me best (although I’m obviously no expert). I think I look best in navy, red and greens. I can do leopard print too for example.

looking at it those pastel pinks on the soft summer palette and the mushroomy colours would look horrible on me. Lilac would be horrible,

Perhaps you are warm toned then? It's so hard to tell from photos but if you feel that those colours are your best then you do sound like an autumn. I'm a soft autumn leaning towards warm autumn and the same colours are good for me too.

I’ll take some more photos with white and cream later when I take off my make up

Style me happy is very reasonable for a colour analysis. I really struggled to see it on myself.

I gave green eyes, brown hair, and tan easily, which made me think autumn but I look awful in orange.

I'm a cool winter

Sounds good, I'll check back later!

Neutral ! I’m neutral I’m a hairdessser ! And I think by my colours I should be cool but when I’ve had cool hair it’s no no ! copper hair works well at a level 7 same with blonde ! Not too dark not too light my foundation is a neutral and it works well I look good in silver and gold and can wear pretty much any colour !! X

Another neutral here. Seasons are starting to be dismissed by the online fashion community. I know what colours suit me and what doesn't and they don't hall specifically into a group.

I agree that you have a neutral skin tone. I think your hair and make up probably leans to the warmer side so you would maybe come out as a soft Autumn.

I'm not sure the whole colour analysis works that well for those of us with neutral toned skin though. I've tried a few of the online quizzes & apps and they've variously put me as soft autumn, soft summer and clear winter!! I don't really suit pastel tones & I look awful in yellow or orange so none the wiser really!

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The only way I’ve ever been able to see it is with lipsticks. Red is best. Go to a makeup counter and try a wine red, more purple leaning and the orangest red you can find. It may be that neither looks perfect but one of them will be markedly better than the other. I’m very warm toned and can wear orange lipstick like a neutral. I don’t, but I can! Anything even slightly blue makes me look really unwell.

I can never work out my skin tone, light blonde child till around 12, then went mousey blue eyes, veins a mix of blue, green, purple, after years of bleach highlights at the age of 64 I have nearly grown them out , I just put a few along top parting and fringe, but when I put my hair in a high pony, I can see a touch of red in my hair.

I also have all sorts of vein colours. I thought I was possibly Autumn was hoping Summer. Turned out to be Paintbox Spring the brightest of them all.

You don't look great in / like all the colours in your palette. Cream, canary yellow, salmon, light grey, terracotta, make me look sick.

I have a similar eye and hair colour to you OP, also with a variation of vein colours.

I haven't had a paid for analysis, but I'm quite sure now that I am a warm/true spring.

The colours in that palette just seem to work. I was sure I was an autumn for a long while though.

I just wear whatever colour I fsncy and think I look good in, and don't worry about the pseudoscience behind it.

Probably the only colours I don't tend to wear are orange or lime green.

I was going to suggest lilac as a good one to test, I'm autumn and lilac is absolutely the worst colour on me. I see it doesn't work on you either, so at the very least you can be pretty sure you're warm toned.

Absolutely this.

I was in a charity shop recently and found a really nice lilac jumper. It's one colour I never wear (I see now for good reason).

I held it up against me and looked in the mirror. My face went a grey tone. I stood there a while putting it up to my face then away to show the green I was actually wearing. Every time I lifted the lilac to me, my face just drained of colour.

Not true - depends on the orange! I suit bright white and cool tones but have a lovely jumper in a cool orange tone.

I don't think any particular colour is off limits, it's a question of tone and shade

So acid yellow pastel vs sunshine yellow to give another example of a colour people think is hard to wear.

Autumn or Spring, I would guess.
Ask a colour specialist when you are wearing no makeup in the make up department.

I think you've warmed your skin with fake tan or bronzer which is confusing with autumn but your eyes are so incredibly pale they can't be autumn and hair too warm for winter if its your natural hair colour. I think you're a cool summer like Duchesse Katherine,and your warm make up or tan is skewing things. If you dye your hair when it turns brassy and fades into warmer that also throws you off into thinking autumn..cool summers look good in navy.

I'm a bright winter, with brown and green eyes. Totally agree with this.

Agree that OP is cool toned. She need to stick to cool toned colours, so the navy must be red-based, not yellow-based.

Try this as a starter: get a piece of pure white paper then go outside into natural daylight, or stand by a well lit window, on a bright day but out of direct sun.

Roll back your sleeve and expose one wrist, and have the palm of that hand facing upwards. Hold the paper right next to your wrist. Is there a golden or yellow tone in the skin, or is it more clearly pink? If there’s a a golden/ yellow tone, look at spring and autumn colour groups (warm). If pink, look at winter and summer (cool).

There’s obviously a lot more to it than this, eg are you muted, bright, cool, warm…but this is a start. Another pointer is to consider if you get complimented on particular clothes, which colours are they and do they fall into one group?

This is very helpful as my mum actually told me when I was about 16 I look terrible in orange, long since passed, but I trust her judgement more than my own!

Unless you’re willing to pay for a consultation this is the best way to tell if you’re warm or cool. Try, or better buy a cheaper range, lipsticks. Get a plum & a coral/orange. Try them on in daylight with no foundation on your skin. One will make you look drained & ill, the other will make you look alive. Though you could be neutral you usually lean at least a little one way.
I went to HofC several years ago, convinced I’d be a summer, very light white/ blonde hair, muddy turquoise eyes. Turned out I was a spring, but a blue spring which is the coolest of the spring types who can suit both gold & silver jewellery & the more blue/green rather than the orange/yellow range in the palette. I look like death in any pastels.

I always think orange and purple are good colours to see if you are warm or cool toned. I am cool/neutral, but orange looks horrific on me so am definitely not warm. And then go with brightness - if a really bright colour overwhelms you, you are a lower contrast season (orange plus lower contrast = autumn, purple plus lower contrast = summer), but if you can wear really bright colours and look great then you are high contrast (orange plus high contrast = spring, purple plus high contrast = winter). I know that’s completely oversimplified and lots of people who’ve done proper assessments will probably come and shout at me, but I reckon that’s as good as any online analysis and at least it’s free!